1st segment of the metasome, and produced in front to an immobile rostrum. 

 Last segment of metasome abruptly much narrower than the preceding ones, and 

 without any distinct epimeral plates. Urosome rather narrow, and subcylindric 

 in form; genital segment in female with a well-defined transversal suture dorsally 

 in the middle. Caudal rami short, with the innermost apical seta well developed, 

 though considerably shorter than the 2 middle ones. Eye wholly absent. Anterior 

 antennae slender, attenuated, many-jointed, those in male distinctly geniculate, 

 with all 3 sections well defined. Posterior antennae with the inner ramus dis- 

 tinctly 3-articulate, and carrying on the tip slender curved setae, outer ramus 

 well developed, though smaller than the inner, and 6-articulate. Mandibles with 

 the masticatory part lamellarly expanded, and divided into several denticulated 

 teeth, palp large, biramous, with both rami biarticulate and carrying slender setae. 

 Maxillae very fully developed, and exhibiting all the parts found in those of the 

 Calanoida, inner ramus of palp greatly elongated, biarticulate. Anterior maxil- 

 lipeds robust, with the normal number of digitiform lobes, the outermost being 

 produced to a strong claw. Posterior maxillipeds more slender, and resembling 

 in structure those in the Calanoida, terminal part 5-articulate. Natatory legs 

 with comparatively broad, flattened rami, those of 1st pair of about equal size, 

 those of the 3 succeeding pairs somewhat unequal, the outer one being the larger. 

 Last pair of legs consisting each of 3 flattened joints carrying scattered setae. 



Remarks. This genus, established by Boeck, was placed by that author, 

 with some hesitation, among the Cyclopoida, and indeed its external appearance 

 is pronouncedly cyclopoid. There is also in this respect a perplexing similarity 

 between this genus and some calanoid genera, viz., Pseudocydops and Para mi - 

 sophria. On a closer comparison, it may, however, at once be distinguished from 

 these genera by the very different mode of articulation of the last segment of the 

 raetasome, and from the Cyclopoida by the single ventral ovisac. The genus as 

 yet comprises only a single species, to be described below. 



1. Misophria pallida, Boeck. 



(PL I & II). 



Misophria pallida, Boeck, Oversigt over de ved Norges Kyster iagttagne Copepoder. Chr. Vid. 



Selsk. Forhandl. 1864, p. 248. 



Specific Characters. Female. Anterior division of body rounded oval in 

 form, with the dorsal face evenly vaulted. Cephalosome (including the 1st segment 

 of metasome) occupying about 2 /s of that division, rostral projection very strong, 

 acute at the tip, and pointing straight downwards. Penultimate segment of meta- 



